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Bite the Bullet is the latest creation by 9_6, developer of the colorful Hyper Wars: The Mega Firestorm. The game plays very differently from standard shooters, in which the player has to avoid bullets for as long as possible to increase the bonus count.Shooting with a bonus greater than ten will activate the autofire mode and imbue the ship with temporary invulnerability. The number of homing projectiles shot during this period depends on your bonus counter.
Press the A key to shoot and hold the S key to activate the slow motion mode, but only if the gauge shown at the top right of the screen is filled up. This bar replenishes steadily over time, and holding the same button will change your ship into a hit box, allowing players to easily dodge bullets.
The bonus counter increases when the player doesn't fire any shots. Destroying an enemy ship awards the player with a health collectible, though acquiring one can be a rather difficult task as your adversaries do not stay around for long.
Name: Bite the Bullet
Developer: 9_6
Category: Shooter
Type: Freeware
Size: 2MB
Found this gameplay vid of a homebrew game called "Odyssen" by SteevTee on YouTube. The game is said to be in an early development stage, but the graphics are already slick and the gameplay looks fast paced and varied.The author describes it as inspired by Gradius and Treasure's shmups, which probably rings well in a lot of ears.
The player attack mechanics look and sound very interesting:
- A total of 6 main weapon systems, each has strengths against different enemies, ie, Napalm is good at close range and against bio foes. Reflect is ideal for enclosed levels. Lightning for larger electronic enemies. Blade is powerful all round but short range. Fusion creates chain reactions in destroyed enemies. Pulse is a rapid all-rounder (ie Vulcan).
- A beam weapon is charged by collecting blues and by grazing enemies and their shots. Activating beam will turn all shots to blues, which in turn will keep the beam firing longer.
There's a thread about the game here. Why not give the guy some feedback and encourage him to keep working on it.
The development diary for Puppy Games' Time Bandit tribute, Treasure Tomb can be found over at the javagaming.org forums.
Nream is a commercial engine (made using Blitz3D) which allows the creation of 3D adventure games with little effort. There are different modules to help make maps, define events, make tiles and more. Almost all aspect of the engine is scriptable, including menu, save/load menu, and even the title screen.
A new set of screenshot for the upcoming vertical shooter Yakouga 4 posted.
Nream is a commercial engine (made using Blitz3D) which allows the creation of 3D adventure games with little effort. There are different modules to help make maps, define events, make tiles and more. Almost all aspect of the engine is scriptable, including menu, save/load menu, and even the title screen.
A new set of screenshot for the upcoming vertical shooter Yakouga 4 posted.
Friday, June 29, 2007
Hurrican updated to version 1.0.0.3; switching weapons now work for the gamepad. [review, cheats]
cactus is working on a 3D update for Fractal Fighter.
There's a huge post about GR3's Rose and Camellia; presumably the game will be released sometime in July.
cactus is working on a 3D update for Fractal Fighter.
There's a huge post about GR3's Rose and Camellia; presumably the game will be released sometime in July.
Pictured right, a Go Nintendo scan from Maniac! (a German magazine) showing exclusive shots of how the student project De Blob will look like on the Wii.De Blob is currently being developed by Blue Tongue Entertainment, and will be published by THQ as a Wii exclusive sometime in 2008. The original school project is still available for download from a GameDev.Net forum thread posted last year.
- Go Nintendo article
- GameDev.Net forum thread
- Kotaku article
Labels: deblob
Frederator Films, an indie feature film company with the aim of producing 2-D animated genre movies with a budget of below $20 million, had recently announced three upcoming projects - with one of them being a claymation feature based on The Neverhood. The original creator, Doug TenNapel will be involved as the writer and director.As stated by Doug himself, "I have absolutely no desire to redo the Neverhood game look... that was what it needed to be for 1995. I'm putting everything on the table story-wise and saying, What is the Neverhood about and who is Klaymen? I've been redesigning the characters and figuring it all out again with a feature-length story in mind."
- Fred Seibert's post
- Variety.com article
- Doug TenNapel's post
- Adventure Gamers article
Vortex is a new abstract arena shooter by Jordan Browne, a Game Maker developer known for his Shuttle series. Use the Z and X key to shoot in either direction, and eliminate twenty enemies from each wave to complete a level.An extremely promising project marred by poorly implemented controls.
Name: Vortex
Developer: Jordan Browne
Category: Shooter
Type: Freeware
Size: 2 MB
Labels: h0607
Thursday, June 28, 2007
Warning: Contains strong language and graphic scenes.Purgatorio is a short adventure game by Jonathan Lynch which tells the tale of Frank O'Shea, a soldier on a peacekeeping mission who was knocked unconscious and injured in the line duty.
He awakens to find himself wounded and in a strange, but somehow familiar town. The game features a mix of photograph and hand drawn art, with the results looking far better than another similar attempt called Soviet Unterzogersdorf.
Name: Purgatorio
Developer: Jonathan Lynch
Category: Adventure
Type: Freeware
Size: 100MB
Labels: d0607
Bite the Bullets is a tech demo made by Ishi to test out a new bullet pattern creation system, hence the lack of enemies and intricate level designs. The gameplay is simple, avoid bullets while directing your shots at an abstract geometric shape to score points. Players shooting from a shorter distance are rewarded with extra points. Hover the mouse pointer around a menu option to make a choice. No button clicks are required.
Name: Bite the Bullets
Developer: Ishisoft
Category: Shooter
Type: Freeware
Size: 2MB
Labels: h0607
Wednesday, June 27, 2007
Pictured from left to right, top to bottom: Paul Cunningham's Doppelganger and Kevin's Interferon: Core Defence. [Alien Abduction]
Pictured above is a screenshot from alillm's Shmup-Dev competition entry, Bullet Symphony. May not seem like much, but the mention of Abstract Sea and Neon 2 as Ali Maunder's previous works will more than likely make anyone sit up and take notice. Quote:
I've had over 3 years experience making games in flash, which unfortunately struggles a bit in regards to speed, which means making decent shmups can be quite a challenge (especially when like me, you like the screen to be full of bullets).
Labels: h0607
Press Release - Developed by Budcat Creations and scheduled for a Q1 2008 release in Europe, Blast Works: Build, Fuse & Destroy is a side-scrolling shooter that lets players craft the game to their liking by building their own levels, ships and enemy ships. In addition, players can "absorb" the pieces and weapons of destroyed enemy ships to bolster their own defenses during battle.Across more than 15 different land, air and sea missions, the goal of Blast Works is to destroy enemy ships while continually growing your own into a massive craft by absorbing their fragments. Players can also upgrade their ship in the Hangar by customising weapons, propulsion systems and armour. Creative types will further enjoy building a ship from scratch with the Ship Editor and then testing it out in combat on a custom level they've built with the Level Editor. To defend the Hangar, players must use the Wii Remote like an anti-aircraft turret to shoot down enemies attacking from all angles. Finally, the game's 2-player cooperative mode lets players work together to blast enemies, fuse debris to grow their ships and finish the mission as a team. [download Tumiki Fighters, strategy guide]
More screenshots: [1] - [2] - [3] - [4] - [5]
Labels: h0607
Tuesday, June 26, 2007
Wilfred, the Hero is a rare breed of RPG Maker games with entirely original content, save for certain sound effects. A collaboration between Brandon Abley and Teo Mathlein, the story is basically about two buddies named Wilfred and Kyr-Stan on a quest to save their world and rid it of evil once and for all.Of course, things are never simple especially when the hero has doubts about his destiny. This theme is explored frequently, and the accompanying soundtrack does a great job of setting each melancholic scene perfectly. Some may remember Teo as the artist responsible for Sunset Over Imdahl, which explains the Misao award it won for the best visual consistency category.
The main characters are easily some of the strangest, with Wilfred acting as the Pyramid Head wannabe and Kyr-Stan assuming the role of Lugaru reincarnated. There are no potions to gather, since Hit Points and Mana Points are restored completely after each battle.
This download only chronicles the first chapter, while the music is available to download from this page.
Name: Wilfred, the Hero
Developer: maladroithim, Teo
Category: RPG
Type: Freeware
Size: 40MB
Labels: r0607
Excerpt from GamesIndustry.biz:
Too many developers are making "cheap knock-offs" of successful games and holding back growth of the casual games market, according to Jason Kapalka, chief creative officer at PopCap Games.
With low development costs, studios are able to churn out copycat games in a short time, but these titles rarely make enough money for developers to grow past a hand-to-mouth existence, says the PopCap founder.
"Very few games are developed without reference to past games. There's always going to be titles that build on a previous mechanic or game. But there's a fine line between that and very bold-faced rip-offs that aren't adding anything to the game and are just trying to make a quick buck," said Kapalka, in an interview with GamesIndustry.biz.
Read more, full interview [source: Teeth]
Too many developers are making "cheap knock-offs" of successful games and holding back growth of the casual games market, according to Jason Kapalka, chief creative officer at PopCap Games.
With low development costs, studios are able to churn out copycat games in a short time, but these titles rarely make enough money for developers to grow past a hand-to-mouth existence, says the PopCap founder.
"Very few games are developed without reference to past games. There's always going to be titles that build on a previous mechanic or game. But there's a fine line between that and very bold-faced rip-offs that aren't adding anything to the game and are just trying to make a quick buck," said Kapalka, in an interview with GamesIndustry.biz.
Read more, full interview [source: Teeth]
A finalist in IGF's 2006 Technical Excellence Category, Switchball's (then known as Crazy Ball) publisher was never made known to the public due to contractual terms. But digging through some dirt has revealed that the big S might possibly be the secret party which is expected to distribute the game once it is completed and ready to ship. Coincidence?Based on impressions from the demo, Switchball has often been described as a spritual successor to Ballance - another ball-shuffling action puzzler. Presumably the new build will support the AGEIA PhysX physics hardware. Demos for both Switchball and it's predecessor are still available for download from Atomic Elbow's web site.
Monday, June 25, 2007
Surprisingly, The Underside hasn't been abandoned yet as Mr. Podunkian begins documenting his work on the second dungeon. Unfortunately it's still a long way from being completed, with school and homework cited as reasons for neglect. [Merry Gear Solid, The Underside preview]PC Format writes a glowing review for The Blackwell Legacy. [view article in new window, The Blackwell Legacy web site]
PEKPOK could possibly be developing a Pengo remake. A 30MB demo for the recently released Irairadori is available for download as well, though the gameplay isn't particularly endearing. [Irairadori direct download link, Push Push Penguin]
Crostar might be working on a new game. [rhacp review]
Bloxorz is a puzzle game which involves shuffling a piece of block across a suspended maze. The objective is basically to get the block to fall through a square hole at the end of each stage, all the while trying to avoid falling off the edges.The player will be introduced to switches, bridges, tiles which responds to different pressures and even teleporters to complicate matters. Later on, smaller blocks are introduced to increase the overall difficulty of each puzzle.
There are thirty-three stages to complete. Development notes can be found here.
Name: Bloxorz
Developer: Roboman
Category: Puzzle
Type: Browser
Labels: u0607
Saturday, June 23, 2007
New patches for Cave Story which replaces Quote with another character to play in the game were added to Efraim's site. [CSLJ entry]Tomaz Kac (Army of Trolls, Head Over Heels) interviewed by Auld Games. Strangely he mentions a remake of StarQuake as well. Coincidence?
Game Maker developers now have two additional tools to add to their collection. The first is a source template by Ablach Blackrat which can be used to make one switch games, while the other is a Physics Game Level Editor made for the creation of physics-based games.
Petri Purho released a level pack for Crayon Physics which includes four new stages.
VSB Labs (a provider of essential technical and design services for indie developers) has announced a new payment option - royalties percentage. A good option for start-up developers creating their first project without sufficient funds to order high-quality content and also for experienced developers wanting to keep their game budget small.
wholook informs of a new gameplay video for Super Mogura Tennis posted on Krobon Station's site, which showcases the character selection screen and a feature called 'Kinetic Vision' (a nod to bullet time) [preview, Mogura 2 review]
Stencyl (Java-based) is a new game development tool which allows games to be made with very little effort spent on programming. As described by the team: Stencyl is a universal platform for tile-based game creation with an emphasis on user-friendliness and adaptability to many different genres. In other words, it's a tool that lets you create practically any standard kind of 2D game in existence.
StencylWorks, the game builder for Stencyl, is the tool that you'll be using to create games. It will be unveiled later this year.
3D games are not supported, but all creations made using this open source freeware development tool will run on Mac and Linux as well. I'm skeptical, but a lot of promises were made and if the developers keep their word then it could possibly rival Mark Overmar's popular Game Maker.
A new improved version of ScummVM was recently released to the general public. Support for new engines and games include:
| Sierra AGI engine | Space Quest I and II, King's Quest I - III many more AGI games, a number of fan-made games |
| Cinematic evo 1 engine | Future Wars |
| GOB engine | Bargon Attack, Gobliins 2, Goblins 3, Ween: The Prophecy |
| Parallaction engine | Nippon Safes Inc. |
| Other games | Touche: The Adventures of the Fifth Musketeer engine |
The list of supported games and screenshots can be found on this page.
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From Retro Remakes:Lemmings DS is a port of the classic action-puzzle game Lemmings for the Nintendo DS. Version 7 has 120 levels from the original games, plus the 100 extra levels from Oh No More Lemmings.
This version also supports DLDI, so now it will hopefully work on all manner of DS flashcards and reach the wider audience that it deserves. Oh, the source is available too if you want to check it out.
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Labels: u0607
Hurrican is essentially a modernised, graphically-updated, feature packed version of Turrican. As with the original, the levels are large (and beg to be explored), the enemies come thick and fast from all angles and the game is far from a pushover. Due to the sheer number of features included, the controls tend to feel a little over complicated at times (there are so many combinations to remember) but the end result is still very rewarding.Name: Hurrican
Developer: Poke53280
Category: Platform Shooter
Type: Freeware
Size: 40MB
Friday, June 22, 2007
GameTunnel's June Monthly Round-Up was recently posted. Famitsu-style summary:
* - Freeware
N - Not Rated
GM - Game of the Month
EC - 36 and above (Editor's Choice)
GA - 32 and above (Gold Award)
SA - 28 and above (Silver Award)
Greg Costikyan (of Manifesto Games) and Derek Yu (of Bit Blot) will join the review panel starting next month. Screenshots and reviews available from GameTunnel.
| Jets'n'Guns Gold | Rake in Grass | 9, 9, 8, 8 | [34/40] GA, GM |
| Venture Arctic | Pocketwatch Games | 8, 8, 8, 9 | [33/40] GA |
| Snapshot Adventures | Large Animal Games | 9, 6, 8, 9 | [32/40] GA |
| PeaceMaker | Impact Games | 7, 9, 9, 5 | [30/40] SA |
| Barrel Mania | CGS Software | 7, 6, 7, 9 | [29/40] SA |
| Defender of the Crown | Cinemaware | 6, 6, 10, 6 | [28/40] SA |
| TV Station Manager | Winter Wolves | 7, 8, 7, 5 | [27/40] |
| The Blackwell Legacy | Wadjet Eye Games | 6, 5, 8, 7 | [26/40] |
| Sonoro TV | DevilishGames | 6, 5, 6, 7 | [24/40] |
| ArchMage | 300AD | 6, 5, 6, 3 | [19/40] |
* - Freeware
N - Not Rated
GM - Game of the Month
EC - 36 and above (Editor's Choice)
GA - 32 and above (Gold Award)
SA - 28 and above (Silver Award)
Greg Costikyan (of Manifesto Games) and Derek Yu (of Bit Blot) will join the review panel starting next month. Screenshots and reviews available from GameTunnel.
A new interview with Nifflas was recently conducted by JeJeuJeux (thanks to Popoyt for the correction) and posted on their site. The entire article was translated to English as well, though readers would have to scroll all the way down and click on a line of text to reveal the English version.Knytt and Within a Deep Forest are both available from Nifflas' web site.
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The artist for all of Bloodlust Software releases in the past is working on a new AGS adventure game under a new banner, Gnarled Scar Manipulations. As explained by the developer of The Knobbly Crook:
You play as O'Sirus the Snip, a simple paper farmer who realizes he is connected to something much bigger. He'll struggle to join the Royal Guffaloon, the Crookian warrior police, he'll end up in the massive stronghold of the Bogold Empire, and eventually he'll be on the front lines of a huge war. I can't hide the rock, paper, scissors theme with my screenshots, so I'll say it has a big part of the way things work in the Knobbly Crook. Magic takes many strange forms, and O'Sirus controls those three elements (Tic is his paper bird).
A short one room demo is available for download.
More images: [1] - [2] - [3] - [4] - [5] - [6] - [7]
You play as O'Sirus the Snip, a simple paper farmer who realizes he is connected to something much bigger. He'll struggle to join the Royal Guffaloon, the Crookian warrior police, he'll end up in the massive stronghold of the Bogold Empire, and eventually he'll be on the front lines of a huge war. I can't hide the rock, paper, scissors theme with my screenshots, so I'll say it has a big part of the way things work in the Knobbly Crook. Magic takes many strange forms, and O'Sirus controls those three elements (Tic is his paper bird).
A short one room demo is available for download.
More images: [1] - [2] - [3] - [4] - [5] - [6] - [7]
Thursday, June 21, 2007
Someone's working on a Starquake remake! Thanks to Eric for the link, an early footage of the work-in-progress can be seen on YouTube. [Starquake map]
The first CPS3 arcade system board debuted in 1996 with Warzard (known as Red Earth outside Japan), and more than ten years later the encryption that prevented MAME from running CPS3 ROMs were finally circumvented by Andreas Naive. Haze (David Haywood) then quickly went to work on the emulation, with all of their current progress documented on this page.
Games that were running on the CPS-3 board are as follows:
Warzard/Red Earth (1996)
Street Fighter 3, New Generation (1997)
Street Fighter 3, 2nd Impact: Giant Attack (1997)
Jojo's Venture (1998)
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (1999)
Street Fighter 3, Third Strike: Fight for the Future (1999)
Owners of defunct CPS-III arcade system boards or scratched Dreamcast discs now have an additional option to relive these Capcom classics.
Games that were running on the CPS-3 board are as follows:
Warzard/Red Earth (1996)
Street Fighter 3, New Generation (1997)
Street Fighter 3, 2nd Impact: Giant Attack (1997)
Jojo's Venture (1998)
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (1999)
Street Fighter 3, Third Strike: Fight for the Future (1999)
Owners of defunct CPS-III arcade system boards or scratched Dreamcast discs now have an additional option to relive these Capcom classics.
Fractal Fighter is a new vertical shooter by cactus which features a limited palette of only two colors. Each boss consists of different weapon parts that the player has to destroy in sequence, randomly created using a tree generation code. A commendable effort especially when considering that the author spent less than a day to create the entire game from ground up.Name: Fractal Fighter
Developer: cactus
Category: Shooter
Type: Freeware
Size: 2MB
Wednesday, June 20, 2007
A 20MB demo for DHC's Vulkaiser is now available from the Vector site. Use the freeware 7-Zip to extract .LZH files. Quite a surprising switch from Pysche Metal to Saturday morning anime. [direct download link, DHC's past projects]One of the developers of Prominence, an upcoming adventure game made with the SCream engine that powered Scratches, was recently interviewed by ACG.
Yakouga 4 announced. [Galshell 2 Bullet Rain, Yakouga 2, Yakouga review]
Puppy Games is working on a new game entitled Treasure Tomb. Cas describes it as a scrolling dot-munching shooter, and if it's anything like Time Bandit then I'm sold. [source: Kev's site]
Chris Och (Super Stun-N-Run) is working on a new Metroid-like project currently titled Buckshot Sagebrush.
Richard Jordan (Zub, Klass of 99) and Andy Noble recently interviewed by Auld Games.
X-0ut's upcoming horizontal 2D shooter should be out before October. [Gravitron, Xain D Sleena, Prototype]
Mordalles is possibly working on at least one new game, as hinted by his signature. [Duty and Beyond review]
Don't Get Me Down, Man is another Pug Fugly creation made as a tribute to classic games of old. Use the arrow keys to move your protagonist around and collect the glowing objects for bonus points. The game ends if you accidentally bump into an enemy.Comes with an online high score table.
Name: Don't Get Me Down, Man
Developer: Chris Roper
Category: Action
Type: Freeware
Size: 2MB
Tuesday, June 19, 2007
Warning: Contains nudity, strong language, and graphic scenes.Masq is an interactive novel which resembles Facade, but minus the boring guesswork as every dialogue option and actions are laid out for you to choose from in each scene. The story is much more interesting as well, and players can expect to discover a new scenario or ending when a different path is taken.
Recommended for adventure and IF fans.
Name: Masq
Developer: Javier Maldonado
Category: Adventure
Type: Freeware
Size: 20MB
Labels: d0607
Origami is working on a new RPG, but it's not a sequel to Last Scenario. Several early screenshots from Exit Fate were recently released to the public, and a demo can be expected in a few months' time. As described by the developer:
- Exit Fate is made using RPGMaker.
- All character battle sprites, portraits and special images are original.
- Nearly all enemy sprites and bosses are original.
Read more [source: pilch, thanks!]
More screenshots: [1] - [2] - [3] - [4] - [5] - [6] - [7] - [8] - [9] - [10] - [11] - [12] - [13]
- Exit Fate is made using RPGMaker.
- All character battle sprites, portraits and special images are original.
- Nearly all enemy sprites and bosses are original.
Read more [source: pilch, thanks!]
More screenshots: [1] - [2] - [3] - [4] - [5] - [6] - [7] - [8] - [9] - [10] - [11] - [12] - [13]
Cluster Funked is another strategic shooter by Jph which features similar gameplay elements from Gyro-Phyter. Your first task is to take control of a red well, which will then produce green units for deployment and defensive purposes.Tap the K key to shoot, and use the J or L key to strafe. Rapid fire can be activated by holding the fire button, but will cause the gun to heat up and locking your weapon until the cool down period passes.
Your ship can grab up to five green pawns using the I key, indicated by triangles around your craft. To respawn, simply move towards any green well on screen.
Name: Cluster Funked
Developer: Jph Wacheski
Category: Action
Type: Freeware
Size: 5MB
Labels: h0607
Gyro-Phyter is an abstract shooter by Jph with strategic elements. The objective of the game is to weaken the green wells and turn them red, though the green side's defensive turrets will try their best to thwart your efforts.Use the arrow key to move your ship around, and tap the I key to place a red turret. To retrieve a turret, simply hold the I key for a few seconds. Red turrets destroyed in combat will float back to base for the player to collect and redeploy on the battlefield.
Ammo is limited, but can be replenished by hovering above the base. Use the J or L keys to strafe, and hold the K key to shoot. If you lose a ship, another will respawn back at base. The number of lives left is indicated at the bottom left of the screen.
Name: Gyro-Phyter
Developer: Jph Wacheski
Category: Action
Type: Freeware
Size: 2MB
Labels: h0607
Monday, June 18, 2007
Immortal Defense is available free at the Game Giveaway of the Day for the next 14 and a half hours, so if you wanted to finish the story but couldn't afford the game, go get it while you can!.
Okay, maybe not Clean Asia II. But nearly a sequel in a sense. It's cactus' shmup-dev game number two. This time the game seems to be very retro.The title is "Akuchizoku", which is bad Japanese for "Evil Blood People". The current plan is to have it play for five very different levels, with the possibillity of an additional small bonus level or two. You get to pilot at least five different fighters, and the game will have a custom made score by John Marwin plus an in game storyline. And it will be shareware, because both authors are apparently in need of funds.
However, there is no price on the game, instead the "customer" makes a donation of at least $1 to get his copy of the full version. Generous donators will be extremely appreciated and therefore get their names in the credit (and possibly a few subsequent cactus games for free, if the economic situation allows it). For those who feel that games should be free to play, there'll be an optional demo version with a bit over 60% of the content from the full version available for download. Note that the full version will probably be released for free whenever there's no point in requiring donations anymore. So anyone who "buys" the game shouldn't consider it that way. Look at it as a donation, and feel that you've done a good deed instead.
Issue 2 of RGCD is here; 27,000 words, 27 reviews, 6 extra features and over 170MB of game files included on disc.There's the featured review of Motocross Challenge GBA, complete with an exclusive interview with the development team behind the game. Aside from that, highlights of Issue 2 include previews of top work-in-progress projects Force Majeure and Brickout 95% as well as reviews of accolade-worthy PC titles such as the awesome Streets Of Rage Remake from Bomber Games, Veck SE and Alien Abduction.
RGCD is 100% spyware free and all files are virus checked before uploading.
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The plot of Zub involves navigating through ten different planets to find the lost Eye of Zub. Each planet is connected to some others by a system of teleports. You start on planet 1 and must get to planet 10 and back. There are platforms on each screen, when you stand on one you can move it by crouching and pushing left or right. Use the platforms to get up to the three teleports at the top, your destination depending on which you choose. There is always at least one alien on screen at any one time, which descends from the top and attempts to knock you off the platforms.
Name: Zub
Developer: Richard Jordan
Category: Action
Type: Freeware
Size: 5MB
Labels: l0607
Sunday, June 17, 2007
Efraim Siounis releases a patch that allows players to experience Cave Story using Curly Brace instead of Quote. [CSLJ entry]A playable demo for Varia is now available for download. [Ikaruga clones article]
Donuts in Danger released.
Postman nets second place in the recent World's Greatest Shmup Player Tournament. Congratulations! [thanks to GameSetWatch]
Red White Yellow gets a new Sound Pack, with a third volume scheduled for a release on the 15th of July.
Colocoro updated to version 1.60. A new level editor is included. [Colocoro review]
Deadheat is working on a new game.
New screenshot from Knytt Stories' level editor posted.
The IGF has announced that submissions are open for the 10th Annual Independent Games Festival, for which the awards will be handed out in February 2008 at Game Developers Conference. Dates for the IGF in 2007/2008 are:
The 2008 IGF Main Competition will be open to all independent developers to submit their games - whether it be on PC, console digital download, Web browser, or other more exotic formats. The prizes again total nearly $50,000, with a $20,000 Seumas McNally Grand Prize, and the deadline to enter the Main Competition is Monday, October 1st 2007.
The 2008 IGF Student Competition will once again award the best student games, and this year will also include student mods to existing games. As a result, the number of Student Showcase winners has been increased to 12. The deadline to enter the Student Competition is Monday, October 15th, 2007.
Costs
Entry fees are the same as last year--$95 for the main competition, and free for the student competition. Note that a student project can enter both competitions simultaneously (but the $95 main competition still applies).
Read more, GameSetWatch
| June 15th, 2007 | Submissions are Open |
| October 1st, 2007 | Submission Deadline, Main Competition |
| October 15th, 2007 | Submission Deadline, Student Competition |
| December 3rd, 2007 | Finalists Announced, Main Competition |
| December 17th, 2007 | Finalists Announced, Student Competition |
| February 18th-22nd, 2008 | Game Developer's Conference 2008 |
| February 20th-22nd, 2008 | IGF Pavilion @ GDC |
| February 20th, 2008 | 2008 IGF Awards Ceremony (Winners Announced) |
The 2008 IGF Main Competition will be open to all independent developers to submit their games - whether it be on PC, console digital download, Web browser, or other more exotic formats. The prizes again total nearly $50,000, with a $20,000 Seumas McNally Grand Prize, and the deadline to enter the Main Competition is Monday, October 1st 2007.
The 2008 IGF Student Competition will once again award the best student games, and this year will also include student mods to existing games. As a result, the number of Student Showcase winners has been increased to 12. The deadline to enter the Student Competition is Monday, October 15th, 2007.
Costs
Entry fees are the same as last year--$95 for the main competition, and free for the student competition. Note that a student project can enter both competitions simultaneously (but the $95 main competition still applies).
Read more, GameSetWatch
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Fedora Spade is a multi-episode detective adventure game with an 8-bit aesthetic, by the author of Missing. It can be described as a mix of Princess Tomato and the Salad Kingdom and Phoenix Wright. The first two episodes have been released.Name: Fedora Spade
Developer: RPGCreations
Category: Adventure/Detective.
Type: Freeware
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Plasma Warrior is the latest platformer by Tom Vine, creator of the excellent Paroxysm which was released a few months earlier. This particular effort uses only seven colors, though no less professional than his last work. Your task is to guide a robot on an exploration mission to uncover the mystery of an abandoned mining operation.Use the cursor keys to move, press the shift key to jump and hold the left control key to shoot. The down arrow key can be used to read signs or enter doors as well. Press the alternate and enter key at the same time to switch between full screen and windowed mode.
Name: Plasma Warrior
Developer: Tom Vine
Category: Platform
Type: Freeware
Size: 1MB
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The lovable rodent from Pixeljam's original maze adventure returns for another go at navigating a dastardly tricky labyrinth in Ratmaze 2, on a quest to nibble down every single piece of cheese or edible material it could sink it's teeth into.The first maze is made playable in this version as well, and a scroll mode can now be activated for a clearer view of the rat's surroundings. Expect to encounter puzzles such as those that requires pushing objects into certain areas or finding false walls to uncover hidden passages.
Name: Ratmaze 2
Developer: Pixeljam
Category: Action
Type: Browser
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Friday, June 15, 2007
Image of a boss from Ether Vapor posted; perhaps one made for this encounter. [Ether Vapor review]New metablog update; Joakim's start page has a new image.
There's a playable Cave Story interface made specifically for an upcoming fan work.
La Croix Pan gets a new update which speeds up the main character's movement. [La Croix Pan review]
Stompy, both blokes from Ovine by Design and Graham were recently interviewed by Auld Games.
Seems like Krobon Station is serious about their upcoming tennis arcade game. [preview, Mogura 2 review]
Alonso Martin is looking for beta testers for his new platformer, Heart Forth, Alicia.
[pictured left to right, Krobon Station's tennis game, screenshot from Heart Forth, Alicia]
Vector TD is a new flash tower defence game by David Scott, creator of the popular Flash Element TD, as well as Flash Circle TD. It takes the standard tower defence gameplay and adds stylish vector graphics, multiple maps, four strategic tower types with ten upgrade levels, and special bonus "power-up" towers that increase the range or damage of all nearby towers.The obtrusive advertisement before the game starts is unfortunate, but if you can past that, the game itself is quite a lot of fun.
Name: Vector Tower Defence
Developer: David Scott
Category: Real Time Strategy/Tower Defence
Type: Browser Game
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The Adventures of Cagney is a short 'Choose Your Own Adventure' novel playable online with plenty of images to accompany each turn of the page.Exploring every single scene won't take longer than fifteen minutes, though the author had included additional bonus content to reward adventurers brave enough to survive until the very end.
Name: The Adventures of Cagney
Developer: Rey Ortega
Category: Adventure
Type: Browser
Tuesday, June 12, 2007
Kevin's post about the new Gibbage.co.uk:
Just revisited gibbage.co.uk, haven't been there in a while but the blog used to make me chuckle alot. Anyway, the world has gone crazy and it's become a game portal! Crikey!
Just revisited gibbage.co.uk, haven't been there in a while but the blog used to make me chuckle alot. Anyway, the world has gone crazy and it's become a game portal! Crikey!
Graham has added an informal second interview to his site, with Bob Fearon of Mersey Remakes. It's a whopping 34MB and nearly 50 minutes long, but is, as usual, well worth the download!Listen
ProfPuppet's Last Scenario walkthrough (near spoiler-free) is now available in both text and zip format. As described by the man himself: It's around 70 pages and should cover almost everything a player could want. The only improvements I could make at this point would be triple-checking for errors, listing two optional boss general strategies I missed, all boss strategies, all item descriptions/locations, editing for consistency, and a complete enemy bestiary, but I'll only do that if a bunch of people want it.
The document contains:
- walkthrough for the main plot
- information about all optional content
- every single boss/reward/hex/items which can be stolen
- a listing of spellcards (unique and highest stat percentage bonus cards)
- location and method of acquiring each Hex card
ProfPuppet's contact details can be found in the document, should you feel the inclination to thank the author for all his efforts.
[Last Scenario direct download link, original SA thread, Last Scenario review]
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La Croix Pan tells the tale of a lone American sniper who enters a small town with the task of defending it by himself. The flashlight plugin is put to good use by the author, and though the game is short it still manages to instill a bit of suspense into the proceedings effectively enough.Name: La Croix Pan
Developer: TheJBurger
Category: Adventure
Type: Freeware
Size: 10MB
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Streambolt Desero is an updated version of Gustav Kilman's similarly titled platformer, but with updated graphics and none of the bugs from the original in this version.Most of the moves have been updated plus several new ones, and a helpful tutorial is included to help new players get acquainted with the controls in a matter of minutes. Not all special abilities are required, since basic attacks can be used to complete the short one level demo with little difficulty.
Name: Streambolt Desero
Developer: Gustav Kilman
Category: Platform
Type: Demo
Size: 2MB
Monday, June 11, 2007
Teaser image from Raidien Phaec posted on Hermitgames' site. [Fren-ze]Tizma releases Geoplex, a new action puzzler.
Artbook and concept documents for Reunion added to Mike Bithell's site.
dess reviews nemu90kww's Aggresive Sokoban. [web site]
Last Scenario updated to version 1.21. Save games from v1.01 are compatible with the latest release. [direct download link]
SCMRPG gets second spot in an old top ten list, sandwiched between Custer's Revenge and E.T. - fame!
SKT promises to double the number of songs in Red White Yellow on June 15th.
Top ten shmups scoring systems list posted on GameFaqs, currently discussed in Shmups Chat.
RGCD issue 2 should be released this week. A teaser image can be found on the official site. All games mentioned on the cover will be made available on the CD. [Motocross Challenge, Guxt, La Mulana, Alien Abduction, Streets of Rage Remake, Veck]New screenshot from Ichigo-Citron's vertical shooter, Rozen Diadem posted.
A tech demo for Hero of Allacrost released. No quest yet, though players can still same a few battles.
3Punge (Three Minutes Game Contest) results announced.
Deep Magic 2 is currently in development. A demo will be released later this week. [original GMC thread]
Kairos is working on a new vertical shooter for the latest Shmup-Dev competition. [Ikaruga review]
Wildfire Studio's Jungo will be released today.
ooPixel's (Samegame series) Waking Life will be released tomorrow. [playable demo]
Use arrow keys to move. Ctrl speeds up text and closes textboxes.
Money for Old Rope (MFOR) explained in detail at We Make the Cops. Bob's new shooter will most likely cost around five pounds.
Screenshots from Play-Asia's collaboration with new team SideQuest Studios posted, a horizontal shooter entitled Söldner-X: Himmelsstürmer. The original announcement (supports 720p HD mode in 16:9) seems to indicate a console release. Due out later this year. [more images, Shmups Chat discussion]
Screenshots from Play-Asia's collaboration with new team SideQuest Studios posted, a horizontal shooter entitled Söldner-X: Himmelsstürmer. The original announcement (supports 720p HD mode in 16:9) seems to indicate a console release. Due out later this year. [more images, Shmups Chat discussion]
Purple is a new platformer by Bowser, creator of the Colorblind FIX series and one of the GM community veterans. Both jump and throw frisbee actions have multiple keys mapped to each. Use the frisbee to hurt enemies or break colored blocks.One level only, though at least four stages are promised for the next release.
Name: Purple
Developer: Bowser
Category: Platform
Type: Freeware
Size: 5MB
Mirrors: Fileplanet, Mediafire
Sunday, June 10, 2007
Kudos: Rock Legend is the latest game from Cliffski [Kudos, Democracy], quietly released back on Friday the 25th of May. The game is a rock band simulator, where you play as the singer in a struggling band attempting to make it big. In some respects it's quite similar to Cliffski's last game, Kudos, but is pleasantly mixed up with entertaining minigames that have you composing songs, mixing your album and practising with your band.Gametunnel wrote an exceptionally positive preview of the game a couple of days before its release, stating that "[...] nothing will prepare you for just how fun Kudos: Rock Legend is", and that "Rock Legend is shaping up as one of the best games of the year", for whatever that's worth. As for my opinion? The game is certainly quite a lot of fun to play, and well worth checking out. Definitely Cliffski's best game to date.
Name: Kudos: Rock Legend
Developer: Positech/Cliffski
Category: Sim Game
Type: Shareware, Demo available
Size: 24MB
Direct Download: (Demo) click here
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Paradroid is a game by Andrew Braybrook that was originally released for the Commodore 64 in 1985.Yes, I am writing a review of a 22-year-old game. Yes, this retro-review deviates a bit from standard Arthouse Games practice. I justify this deviation with the following two excuses: 1. I never played the game when I was a kid, so it's new to me (and probably new to many of you, too); and 2. there's very little modern grist for the Arthouse Games mill (art games are few and far between). That said, I'm not sure that Paradroid is an art game---more like an interesting landmark in the art of game design.
Okay, first things first: how can you play it? Paradroid was re-released as Paradroid 90 on the Atari and some other platforms. It has a few modern remakes for PCs (see http://paradroid.sf.net, http://paradroid.ovine.net/, and http://freedroid.sourceforge.net/). All of these remakes differ slightly from the original in graphics or gameplay, but they're probably the easiest way to get a taste of Paradroid on a modern computer.
This review covers the original 1985 version for the C64---you can download a disk image of that here: paradroid.zip. I played it on the VICE emulator, and I had to download C64 system ROMS separately (from this package), since they no longer ship with VICE for legal reasons. I unzipped the paradroi.d64 disk image, mounted it as a disk in VICE, and auto-started the program on the disk. I had a bit of trouble here and there along the way (Paradroid is looking for a joystick---or emulated joystick---on port 2), but I was able to get Paradroid running smoothly with a bit of perseverance. If this process sounds too involved, try one of the remakes linked above.
Read the full review over at Arthouse Games.
Name: Paradroid
Developer: Andrew Braybrook
Year: 1985
Platform: Commodore 64
Type: Abandonware
Saturday, June 09, 2007
SKT had recently updated Red White Yellow, their color matching puzzler, to include several new tracks and sound effects. From the original review: The objective of the game is to remove tiles from the screen by connecting six or more blocks of the same color are connected to each other.
The current type of colored blocks which can be removed from the field switches whenever a chain is made.
Click here to play
There's a small flash toy called Comic Dice added to Matt Hammill's Underwater Base site. Gesundheit was updated with minor changes as well.
Roll the hand-printed, hand-sewn dice to randomly generates a three-panel comic strip with a beginning, middle and end for a few minutes' worth of diversion.
Nifflas had confirmed that the chances of Knytt Stories released before the 30th of August is slim, though development would be wrapped up long before then.
Foppy is working on Race Challenge, a game featuring the sort of perspective seen in Pole Position and Out Run. [Flyout, Gridfire review]
A complete walkthrough for Joakim's Tripline was recently posted in the konjak.org forums.
The translation patch for the Narcissu Side 2nd should be out early next month.
Game.Dev Competition 15 announced. [forum thread]
JNKPlat 07 updated to version 0.2. Fullscreen mode added.
New screenshots from Tormishire posted.
Vince Twelve's next game titled.
Roll the hand-printed, hand-sewn dice to randomly generates a three-panel comic strip with a beginning, middle and end for a few minutes' worth of diversion.
Nifflas had confirmed that the chances of Knytt Stories released before the 30th of August is slim, though development would be wrapped up long before then.
Foppy is working on Race Challenge, a game featuring the sort of perspective seen in Pole Position and Out Run. [Flyout, Gridfire review]
A complete walkthrough for Joakim's Tripline was recently posted in the konjak.org forums.
The translation patch for the Narcissu Side 2nd should be out early next month.
Game.Dev Competition 15 announced. [forum thread]
JNKPlat 07 updated to version 0.2. Fullscreen mode added.
New screenshots from Tormishire posted.
Vince Twelve's next game titled.
Friday, June 08, 2007
Pretty much the sequel to Seiklus, in spirit if not in form. cly5m has been secretly working on a new project entitled Avaus, with at least 130 rooms to explore. As described on the autofish site:
In this game, you'll pilot a ship on a rescue mission in a dream world. This is a pretty large project, and I hope to have it finished in 2007.
Read more, autofish.net
In this game, you'll pilot a ship on a rescue mission in a dream world. This is a pretty large project, and I hope to have it finished in 2007.
Read more, autofish.net
eXceed3rd-JADE PENETRATE- is the latest vertical shooter from the eXceed series, with much of the interface and gameplay mechanics simplified to allow accessibility for new players while challenging veterans as well.Extra lives are awarded when the extend gauge is full, while options are granted with each charge of the reinforce bar. Collect small bonus items marked 'P' to increase the extend count, and grab the large ones marked 'D' to add one percentage to the reinforce counter. Bombs are launched using the X key. Hold the Z key for your primary means of attack, and press the C key to focus your shots.
When fighting a boss, a position marker shows up on the bottom margin of the screen, indicating where the boss is on the horizontal axis. Both easy and original modes feature two stages only, though the player will be rewarded with additional boss attack patterns for choosing a harder difficulty setting.
Mirrors can be acquired from this page. Simply click on any of the bracketed numbers from 1 to 12 to begin downloading.
Name: eXceed3rd-JADE PENETRATE-
Developer: tennen-sozai
Category: Shooter
Type: Demo
Size: 250MB
Download page: click here
Thursday, June 07, 2007
As announced by Nifflas in this forum post, Knytt Stories should be out before August 30th.
Nothing new was revealed, so how about a screenshot instead. [web site]
Nothing new was revealed, so how about a screenshot instead. [web site]
Immortal Defense isn't the first Game Maker project to go commercial (see Mr. Chubigan's Shellblast and MAGI), plus developers rarely reveal their sales numbers to outsiders - hence it's a kind gesture by RPGCreations to publish not only sales stats but their marketing strategies as well, with the intention that the information can be of some use to other independent game developers. [recent interviews]Interestingly, Mr. Chubigans had also set himself a sales target of fifteen copies for Shellblast each month (before being published on a major game portal), though no official numbers have been made public yet.
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Chaffinch Challenge is a decent action game by Pete Bunting which features retro-style graphics and a variety of chiptunes for each stage. In it, your task is to guide the frail little bird into the bowels of the earth and beyond while collecting glowing crystals to fill your power indicator.Use the arrow keys to direct the protagonist while avoiding walls, trees, clouds and just about every single object in the game. Requires a fair amount of arcade skills to complete. Click on the screenshot to begin downloading the file. Seven levels in total.
Chaffinch Challenge
Developer: Pete Bunting
Category: Action
Type: Freeware
Size: 1MB
Direct download link: click here
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JNKPlat 07 is a puzzler by Jayenkai disguised as a platformer, in which all movements are measured in grids. The problem of missing a leap by mere pixels is avoided, though two jump buttons have been included so there could be a slight confusion when learning the controls.Each of the twenty stages can be completed without collecting all bonus items.
Name: JNKPlat 07
Developer: Jayenkai
Category: Platform
Type: Freeware
Size: 2MB
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Tuesday, June 05, 2007
RPGCreations (creators of Missing and Alphasix) announce the release of Immortal Defense, a story-based tower defense game.
The classic elements of tower defense are there: players must use strategically-placed towers to fight off waves of "creeps", preventing them from getting to the end of the path. The player can build new towers or upgrade existing ones to defeat the ever-more-dangerous "creeps", earning money for each kill--money which can be used to expand and refine the basic defense even further.
Immortal Defense features eleven unique towers (or "Points"), each with their own distinctive personality and style of fighting. Each Point represents a different aspect of the player's will and personality.
The mouse cursor is an integral gameplay element. The cursor fires at enemies in its range, giving your overall defense an extra boost at critical moments. The mouse cursor also allows you to "target" specific enemies, involving the player more closely in the action than the typical tower defense game (where it's sufficient to simply place all of your towers, sit back, and watch your strategy in action.)
Name: Immortal Defense
Developer: RPGCreations
Category: Tower Defense
Type: Shareware
Size: 17MB
The classic elements of tower defense are there: players must use strategically-placed towers to fight off waves of "creeps", preventing them from getting to the end of the path. The player can build new towers or upgrade existing ones to defeat the ever-more-dangerous "creeps", earning money for each kill--money which can be used to expand and refine the basic defense even further.
Immortal Defense features eleven unique towers (or "Points"), each with their own distinctive personality and style of fighting. Each Point represents a different aspect of the player's will and personality.
The mouse cursor is an integral gameplay element. The cursor fires at enemies in its range, giving your overall defense an extra boost at critical moments. The mouse cursor also allows you to "target" specific enemies, involving the player more closely in the action than the typical tower defense game (where it's sufficient to simply place all of your towers, sit back, and watch your strategy in action.)
Name: Immortal Defense
Developer: RPGCreations
Category: Tower Defense
Type: Shareware
Size: 17MB
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Sunday, June 03, 2007
Strangely, there's little swearing in this episode as the upcoming platformer by Jonathan Blow earns glowing praises. As Graham puts it: It's the most original and fresh platform game I've played in at least ten years, and almost every single puzzle in it will make you grin with happiness and clap with appreciation at the cleverness of it.
Braid is almost like a series of six different games, each of which has a uniquely excellent and original gameplay mechanic except you're getting it all in a single package.
Read, listen
The latest addition to the Ricochet family of brick-busting relatives, Ricochet Infinity features 215 levels, while additional stages will be made available to download from Reflexive's web site.
A mouse party mode is included for competitive and cooperative multiplayer play, while the new 'Recall' ability allows a player to control the ball direction or path directly with the press of a button. Due out in mid-July.
Read more, official web site
A mouse party mode is included for competitive and cooperative multiplayer play, while the new 'Recall' ability allows a player to control the ball direction or path directly with the press of a button. Due out in mid-July.
Read more, official web site
From the Metanet Software's metablog:
SUBLiME, the Submit Unique and Brilliant Levels in to Metanet Event, launches today. It's only open for two weeks, so get ready to make some great N levels, really really quickly.
We're accepting submissions of levels specifically made for this event, using special versions of Ned (available at the SUBLiME entry page; link below) from anyone worldwide who wishes to send 'em in.
Our favourite submissions may make it into N+, garnering their author credit in-game and a free copy of the version in which their level appears. Level submitters may also receive some other lovely N+ swag.
Check out the Instructable on How to Create A Good N Level, and then head on over to the SUBLiME entry page to read the full rules and guidelines, and send in your submission.
N+ was originally announced for the XBLA, DS and PSP platforms, with the release date scheduled as fall 2007.
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SUBLiME, the Submit Unique and Brilliant Levels in to Metanet Event, launches today. It's only open for two weeks, so get ready to make some great N levels, really really quickly.
We're accepting submissions of levels specifically made for this event, using special versions of Ned (available at the SUBLiME entry page; link below) from anyone worldwide who wishes to send 'em in.
Our favourite submissions may make it into N+, garnering their author credit in-game and a free copy of the version in which their level appears. Level submitters may also receive some other lovely N+ swag.
Check out the Instructable on How to Create A Good N Level, and then head on over to the SUBLiME entry page to read the full rules and guidelines, and send in your submission.
N+ was originally announced for the XBLA, DS and PSP platforms, with the release date scheduled as fall 2007.
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mrkwang had recently interviewed the CEO of Manifesto Games, which can be found here. Though nowhere near as comprehensive as Dean Takahashi's article, they do discuss about the company's growth ("Our best sellers are in the hundreds of units sold...") and his current favorites. (The Shivah, Peacemaker, Kudos, DROD: Journey to Rooted Hold and Ninjastarmageddon - all available to purchase from the Manifesto Games site)Read more
Warning: Contain scenes of violence, strong language, blood and gore.Action Cyborg is a short action game by John Karlgren with four playable levels, though it's quite unlikely that more will be added in the near future since the original artist has left the project.
Speech can be turned off by using the options menu. Press the Z key to jump, or hold the X key to shoot. Switch weapons with the 1, 2, 3 and 4 keys. No continues, but there's a cheat for level skip in the text manual if you're having difficulty with the game.
Name: Action Cyborg
Developer: John Karlgren
Category: Action
Type: Freeware
Size: 2MB
Saturday, June 02, 2007
Cryptic Sea has released a Mac version of their physics-based puzzler Blast Miner. Still no news about Gish 2 however. [Edmund McMillen's web site]
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the cast of Gish
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the cast of Gish
DHC is currently adjusting the difficulty level for their first shareware release, Vulkaiser (which probably means adding more bullets in Japanese terms). Updated screenshots will be posted on the game information page soon, and the developers are suggesting the possilibity of co-operative play through the internet. Either that or I read the translated text wrong.
They have also stated that the game may not meet the expectations of many, which is pretty much what Pixel said before the release of Guxt. Admittedly current screenshots do little to instill confidence, but DHC had set an admirable standard with their freeware releases so it's quite unlikely that Vulkaiser will be disappointing to any extreme.
Also interesting to note that Vulkaiser was announced on the 1st of April, so it could be a two-month long joke and the final product may be totally different from what the images suggest. [DHC's web site, past projects]
Read more (translated)
They have also stated that the game may not meet the expectations of many, which is pretty much what Pixel said before the release of Guxt. Admittedly current screenshots do little to instill confidence, but DHC had set an admirable standard with their freeware releases so it's quite unlikely that Vulkaiser will be disappointing to any extreme.
Also interesting to note that Vulkaiser was announced on the 1st of April, so it could be a two-month long joke and the final product may be totally different from what the images suggest. [DHC's web site, past projects]
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Pictured left is a screenshot from the upcoming sequel to Heartland, titled Unbound. [Heartland review]
Next to it, a (possibly outdated) screenshot from Ore no Ryomi 3, subtitled King of All Cooks. [Vertigo Games web site]
Next to it, a (possibly outdated) screenshot from Ore no Ryomi 3, subtitled King of All Cooks. [Vertigo Games web site]
Monokey has announced their participation in the latest Shmup-Dev competition, with the entire Force Majeure team reuniting and the introduction of a new member named rayraytea. Force Majeure is still set to debut as a shareware title this winter 2007.
Will the final product adapt a sketched look (like Eraser) or can we expect more pixelated eye candy? Here's hoping that we are able sample more than two levels with the induction of a another sprite artist, but the contest could be tight as X-0ut, Linley and cactus (Prototype, Excellent Bifurcation and Clean Asia) will be involved as well - all winners from previous Shmup-Dev compos. [Force Majeure download page, junkboy's pixel art]
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From this...
To this. Personally I think the art has improved
Will the final product adapt a sketched look (like Eraser) or can we expect more pixelated eye candy? Here's hoping that we are able sample more than two levels with the induction of a another sprite artist, but the contest could be tight as X-0ut, Linley and cactus (Prototype, Excellent Bifurcation and Clean Asia) will be involved as well - all winners from previous Shmup-Dev compos. [Force Majeure download page, junkboy's pixel art]
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From this...
To this. Personally I think the art has improved
Erin Robinson has revealed more information about her involvement with Blackwell Legacy on her site, stating that it will be out in mid-August - which incidentally coincides with the release date for her freeware adventure game Nanobots.
Spooks' development team has reunited for the Nanobots project, meaning that Vince Twelve (Linus Bruckman) is in charge of scripting while Scorposer takes up the responsibility of supplying background music. [Blackwell Unbound mini-site, Spooks review]
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Spooks' development team has reunited for the Nanobots project, meaning that Vince Twelve (Linus Bruckman) is in charge of scripting while Scorposer takes up the responsibility of supplying background music. [Blackwell Unbound mini-site, Spooks review]
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Krobon Station is currently working on Mogura 3 and Super Mogura Tennis. [right-click here to save gameplay video from Super Mogura Tennis, Mogura 2 review]
Alex Adventure is a cute platformer, somewhat on a par with Lyle in Cube Sector in terms of creativity used for enemies and environment. Jumping feels a little strange at first but once you get past this, the gameplay focuses on running, jumping, shooting, exploring and solving small puzzles. Fortunately the gameplay mechanics actually work quite well and the game itself has a good deal of charm.Name: Alex Adventure
Developer: Alexandre Szybiak
Category: Platformer
Type: Freeware
Size: 8.3MB
Labels: l0607
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